Saint Jean de Losne
No, of course not THE French Laundry, but one more important to us. Here there is a Laundromat right on the quay in town which makes doing laundry not such a chore. It is a grey, rainy day and we can pop the clothes in the machine and retreat to our cozy boat and watch TV with British people outside on boats wet and cold in London as they celebrate the Queens Jubilee.
We have just had our friends/neighbours Craig and Toni visit us in Dole, where we puttered about for a couple of days in glorious weather. We hope they enjoyed their introduction to canal life as we enjoyed having them here. They were very easy to have on board, pitched in with meal making and are now off for another three weeks of travel.
Coming back from Dole I went to increase speed coming out of the lock and nothing happened, we just slid out to the waiting pontoon. After some poking about I discovered a broken throttle cable to the outside steering position and was able to rig it so the inside on still worked, which got us back here. Let’s hope this is the last thing to go wrong this year and I will spend tomorrow (no more I hope) snaking in a new one so we can set off on Tuesday,when the weather is supposed to improve, down the river Saone and into the Canal du Centre.
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